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CHARLES A. BALLOUGH. 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES 



BY 



CHAS. A. BALLOUGH 



SEABREEZE, FLA. 



DeLand, Fla. 
E. O. PAINTER & CO. 

1902. 



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"The thoughts we think are the seeds 

we sow, 
And the seeds we sow is the harvest 
we reap" 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 



Hypnotism is no longer shunned and 
feared by the masses as a mysterious and 
evil thing. It is coming rapidly to the 
front as a science, with its own special 
field of uses. One seldom picks up a 
magazine or a daily paper these days 
without being confronted with some art- 
icle on hypnotism. In fact it has come 
to be one of the topics of the day. 

No one can afford to remain in ignor- 
ance of hypnotism and its methods, 
when a knowledge of it endows us with 
so much power to advance, not only our 
own interests in life, but the interests of 
those about us. The man who knows 
nothing of hypnotism nowadays is at a 



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very great disadvantage with his fellow 
man, in both the business and the social 
world. But there is no necessity for his 
remaining at a disadvantage; there are 
splendid natural forces lying dormant 
within the mind of >every man that can 
be called into life and action at the bid- 
ding of his will — that can be used to ele- 
vate himself mentally, morally, socially 
and financially, and that, too, without 
wronging another. You do not need to 
wade through volumes of dull, dry read- 
ing to acquire this knowledge. If you 
read carefully and thoughtfully the fol- 
lowing pages they will furnish you the 
necessary start. The practical working 
knowledge can only be had through ex- 
perience. Ample instruction is here giv- 
en, but stripped of all superfluous mat- 
ter, (the superfluous matter can be found 
in other books on hypnotism.) As Mark 



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Twain said in one of his stories "if you 
want to know how the weather was. see 
Genesis, first chapter, 'and it rained forty 
days and forty nights/ " 

Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Weltmer- 
ism, Christian science, Divine science and 
Mental science are merely individual in- 
terpretations — differing with the point 
of view — of a simple natural law. All 
these sciences can be condensed into one 
statement, as expressed by Prof. Welt- 
mer, "What we believe is what controls 
us." 

The quickest — I might say the only 
way, for the student to acquire a know- 
ledge of hypnotism is to begin by assum- 
ing these statements to be true. Do not 
theorize about them, but begin at once 
to try them — put them to the test — they 
will prove themselves. Do not wait until 
you have finished this little book before 



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trying your powers, but experiment with 
each formula as you come to it, before 
the mind becomes tired and confused by 
taking in much that is new to it. With 
a very little knowledge and a great deal 
of confidence you will find that you can 
do as much as any other hypnotist. The 
chief essential is your ability to make 
your subject believe you can hypnotize 
him, and you can hypnotize as many at 
one time as you can make believe in 
your power to do so. But the method 
that produces a state of hypnosis (sleep) 
in one subject will not always do for an- 
other. A person desirous of being hyp- 
notized, and yet unable to yield himself 
to the influence exerted over him should 
not be discouraged, nor should the oper- 
ator give him up as a bad subject. You 
need secretly to study your subject; 
watch him closely until you are able to 



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do or say something that attracts his 
attention, then hold it ; I will give you a 
case in point further on. Always dis- 
play a cool, confident manner to your 
subject; lead him to believe you are per- 
fect master of the art and your work is 
then half done. I am now going to give 
you some formulas for hypnotizing; you 
may use any or all of them, and you may 
also invent new methods of your own 
whereby you can attract and hold the at- 
tention of your subject. Let me repeat 
that the power to hypnotize lies solely in 
your ability to hold the attention of your 
subject and make him believe that you 
can put him to sleep. Do> not try to put 
anyone to sleep who has no faith in you, 
or one who believes that hypnotizing is 
done by the power of a strong will to 
subdue a weaker one. You will fail if you 
undertake to hypnotize under these cir- 



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cumstances. No one likes to be thought 
lacking in will-power and there would 
be a strong, though perhaps unconscious 
resistance to your "dominating pow- 
er/' As a matter v of fact, the stronger 
the will the better the subject. No one 
ever did, or ever will, hypnotize an im- 
becile, for such an one has not the power 
to concentrate his thoughts. If a subject 
can hold one thought to the exclusion of 
all other thoughts you can hypnotize 
him. 

In trying to put a person under con* 
trol, bear in mind that it is absolutely es- 
sential that he be inspired with confi- 
dence in your ability. If you have faith 
in yourself you will without effort inspire 
faith in your subject. 



FORMULA NUMBER ONE. 

FOR ONE SUBJECT. 

Here is a very good formula for hypno- 
tizing a single subject. First place him in 
an easy position — make him perfectly 
comfortable — then tell him that you are 
going to put him to sleep, but will make 
an agreement with him that you will not 
harm him in any way — will not cause him 
to do or say anything that he would ob- 
ject to in his normal state. Ask him to 
assist you by relaxing the tension of his 
mind and body as much as possible — to 
hold himself passive while you talk to 
him. Seat yourself in front of him and 
take his hands in yours while you con- 
tinue to talk to him quietly, and if need 
be soothingly, that he may become free 



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from any unconscious nervous tension. 
Tell him that he will derive benefit from 
the sleep; that you will do only what is 
for his good. Continue to< hold his 
hands a few minutes, then ask him to 
look at some bright object which you 
have previously placed somewhere in 
front of him and slightly above the level 
of his eyes. If at night a lighted lamp or 
electric light will serve the purpose nice- 
ly ; in the day time almost anything will 
serve for a pioint of concentration. If the 
object is something that reflects light all 
the better as the eye will weary more 
quickly. Say to your subject, "Look 
steadily at the object and think only of 
sleep." Wihen he has maintained a steady 
gaze for a few moments tell him you can 
see that his eyes are getting heavy, and 
soon he will feel so drowsy that he can- 
not keep them open. Wait a few seconds 



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for your suggestion to take effect th^n 
say slowly and softly, "Drowsy — sleepy. 
I see you are going to sleep. Your eye- 
lids are getting heavy — heavy — you 
want to sleep — just sleep — sleep — and 
rest. You are resting now — your eyes 
are closing — closing — closing. You are 
sinking into a deep sleep — a quiet, rest- 
ful sleep. Sleep — sleep — your eyes are 
closing, you cannot hold them open. 
Closing — closing — closing — closed. Now 
your eyes are closed. I am going to 
count ten and by the time I am through 
you will find you eyes are closed so 
tightly that you cannot open them. You 
cannot even try to open them." Now com- 
mence to count in a slow, monotonous 
voice, "one, two, three, four, five, six, 
seven, eight, nine, ten." Wait a few sec- 
onds, then say, "You are asleep and 
when I count five you will find it impos- 



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sible to open your eyes; your lids are 
closed tight and fast. You are sound 
asleep. One, two, three, four, five. Now 
try to open your eyes. Try to open 
them. Try all you can but you cannot 
open them. Sleep, sleep. You are sound 
asleep — sound asleep/' 

If you have done your work well you 
have your subject by this time entirely 
under your control; the action of his 
conscious mind has been suspended ; he 
is now in a condition to take your sug- 
gestions. So* far there has been no 
harm done to the subject. You need 
now to 1 be careful; remember that any 
suggestion you give him at this time is 
real to him. If he is sick you can make 
him well by suggesting to him that his 
trouble is all gone ; that he is feeling bet- 
ter and is free from pain ; that when he 
awakes he will be conscious of new life, 



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new hope, new courage; that he will con- 
tinue to improve in health and strength 
from day to day until he is in perfect 
health ; that he is master of himself and 
always will be; that his body is an expres- 
sion of his mind, and that his mind pos- 
sesses all power for good. You may use 
your own language, but make the idea 
clear. Be careful that you do not give 
him any inharmonious suggestions, for 
he can be made sick just as easily as he 
can be made well. The longer you 
continue to use harmonious suggestion 
to him (if he remains comfortable) the 
more good you will do him. Just keep 
up a flow of suggestion ; health, strength, 
courage, etc., until you feel sure he has 
taken all he needs, then you can wake 
him. Do not be afraid that you will be 
unable to arouse him for this is easily 
done. Of course you wish to act justly 



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towards him — you wish to entirely re- 
lease him from any control, either 
yours or that of any one else. Say to 
him, "Now I am going to let you wake 
up, and when I do you will be all right, 
perfectly well in mind and body. From 
now on you will be perfectly positive — 
that is, able to resist temptation and all 
undesirable influences. You will realize 
your power of will as never before. 
While you have become positive to all 
that is harmful you have become 
passive and receptive to all that is good. 
Now I want you to begin to wake up; 
slowly and quietly wake up. When I 
count five you will be wide awake with 
all your mental and physical powers in 
perfect working order. One, two, three, 
four, five/' 

You will now find your subject wide 
awake. 



FORMULA NUMBER TWO. 

FOR ONE SUBJECT. 

Tell your subject that you are going 
to hypnotize him. Ask him if he is will- 
ing to do as you tell him ; if he will allow 
himself to become passive in your hands. 
Place him in a comfortable chair (if he 
can recline or partly recline it will be bet- 
ter) step up to him and rub his head in 
an off-hand manner, running your fingers 
lightly through his hair, now place your 
hands on either side of his head, putting 
considerable pressure into your touch. 
Slowly move the right hand to base of 
brain, the left to forehead and keep them 
in this position for a minute or two; tell 
him that he is a good subject; that he 
has a will of his own, but that he has it 



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well under control ; that you see in him 
a fine hypnotist. Assure him that any 
one who can concentrate his mind on any 
one subject can not only be hypnotized 
but will also make a hypnotizer. Make 
it plain to him that it is only through his 
ability to concentrate that he can be- 
come either subject or operator. Now 
remove your hands, step in front of him, 
place your face within about two* feet of 
his face, and considerably above it (it will 
come about right if you are standing 
and your subject sitting.) Tell him to 
look you straight in the eye and not take 
his eyes off you for a minute. Now look 
him steadily in the eye. (A hypnotizer 
must be able to gaze steadily into the 
eyes of a subject for almost any length of 
time without weariness.) Hold up your 
right hand with two fingers extended and 
make passes across and in front of his 



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face, but not so as to cut off the object 
of his view. By this time his eyes will 
be showing signs of weariness. Tell 
him to count the passes you are making 
and by the time he has counted fifteen he 
will find that his eyes are so heavy that 
he will be unable to hold them open. 
Make the passes slowly and uniformly; 
after you have made five or six, say to 
your subject, "Your eyes are getting 
heavy, the lids are closing, you can hard- 
ly keep them open, soon they will close en- 
tirely, and you will sleep — sleep — sleep. 
You are going to sleep — your eye-lids are 
closing — closing — sleepy — sleepy — - 
drowsy — sleepy — drowsy — sleepy — " 
etc. By the time you have made your 
fifteen passes your subject will probably 
be unable to- hold his eyes open any 
longer. Say to him, "Closing — closed — 
closed — you are sound asleep — sound 



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asleep." He is now entirely under your 
control. You can do with him as you see 
fit. You can make him see, hear, feel 
and even think as you suggest. Tell him 
to open his eyes but that he will still be 
under your control. You can now do 
with him anything you have seen other 
hypnotists do with their subjects. You 
are now a full fledged operator. From 
the time you meet with your first suc- 
cess — from the time you have succeeded 
in fully hypnotizing a subject, you will 
feel confidence in yourself and your work 
will be easy. But remember, you are re- 
sponsible for your subject's welfare while 
he is in this helpless condition. See that 
he receives no bad or inharmonious sug- 
gestion, or if he does that you remove 
all such before he is awakened, as great 
harm can be done through leaving bad 
suggestions lurking in his sub-conscious 



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mind. Sometimes in teaching classes 
and for the sake of demonstrating we 
will cause a subject (through sugges- 
tion) to take on sickness of various 
kinds. You can induce extreme nausea 
and vomiting, headache, toothache, blind- 
ness and lameness ; they will suffer from 
cold or become so over-heated as to 
break into a profuse perspiration at your 
suggestion ; they will be convulsed with 
mirth or reduced to- tears, or do any 
thing but violate the principles to which 
they are true when awake. Tell your 
subject before waking him that he will 
forget all bad feelings and be perfectly 
well and in good spirits when he comes 
out of his sleep. Do not have any fears 
as to your ability to awaken him, never 
allow yourself to become nervous or un- 
easy about it, for it is done with perfect 
ease. Just tell him quietly to wake up, 



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and he will do so. If he is slow to open 
his eyes say to him, "I am going to make 
a few passes over you and by the time I 
count five you will be fully awake and 
feeling splendidly. Say "One, two, three, 
four, five" and snap your fingers lightly 
ait the fifth count, your subject will be 
then fully awake. 

I want to call your attention to the 
fact that there is special power in "in- 
tention." Once make up your mind that 
you are going to do a thing, and you 
rally your forces and proceed to bring 
about what you desire. "Intention" 
simply means a concentration of your 
powers, bringing them to a focus on 
some special object. You succeed in 
hypnotizing a subject because you intend 
to, and you succeed in awakening him 
for the same reason, you simply intend 
to do so. He will obey every command 



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as long as you remain cool and master 
of yourself. But if you become nervous 
and lose control of yourself you cannot 
expect your subject to obey. If, as 
is sometimes the case, he is resting com- 
fortably and is inclined to be lazy 
he may not rouse up at the first trial, in 
which case wait a minute or two, then 
say in a voice of command, "Now, sir, 
when I count five you will be wide 
awake." Say this as if you meant it and 
it will reach him. 

You will take note that up to the pres- 
ent I have said nothing about selecting 
subjects, (some making better subjects 
than others) my reason is that so far we 
have been using this power for the pur- 
pose of healing only, and given plenty of 
time, we do not recognize the possibility 
of failure. That is, while it is claimed 
that all persons possessed of ordinary in- 



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telligence can be hypnotized, in some 
cases it may take hours or even clays to 
get a subject under full control, but re- 
peated effort must be crowned with suc- 
cess in the end. Only about twenty-five 
per cent of the American people are sus- 
ceptible to hypnotic influence at the first 
trial. 



FORMULA NUMBER THREE. 

FOR ONE SUBJECT. 

There are as many different formulas 
for hypnotizing a subject as there are 
subjects to hypnotize. I will here give 
you an instance where a pansy was used 
with perfect success when all other meth- 
ods had failed. 

I had tried many times to put this sub- 
ject to sleep, but had never succeeded in 
doing so, nor was I able in this case to 
plant the necessary suggestion without 
hypnotizing. This time having made my 
subject perfectly comfortable, in an easy 
chair, I selected a pansy from among 
others in a bowl on my table. This pansy 
had almost as many colors as Jacob's 
coat. Blue, red, yellow, white, purple, 



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etc., but it was a beauty. My patient was 
a lady of culture, and understood the art 
of dressing in perfect taste. Taking the 
pansy in my right hand I held it about 
two feet from her eyes, and a 
little above their level. (In this 
position it served a two-fold purpose; 
it was not only an object to< attract 
her attention, but its elevation induced a 
slight strain on the optic nerve and this 
favored sleep.) I said,"Is it not a beauty? 
Just look at it ; see what wonderfully fine 
taste these little flowers display; how 
beautifully these colors blend, and yet no 
lady would dare to put so many together. 
Just note the combination, the arrange- 
ment of color — red, blue, white, yellow 
and purple, yet not one of these colors 
infringes on the rights of another, all are 
harmonious. Really the little thing is a 
study. It is not only beautiful but it is 



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modest, it seems to droop its head as 
though it were conscious of our admira- 
tion, though perhaps it is only tired and 
wants to sleep. I think pansies sleep; 
why shouldn't they sleep, they look like 
little people. Sleep is our best friend; 
when sleep comes to our eyes we rest — 
rest quietly and happily ; we do not then 
think and worry uselessly about anything 
we simply rest ; and in this quiet sleep we 
gain health, strength and happiness. 
When the conscious mind sleeps, the sub- 
conscious mind is more awake — it is freer 
— and can the better take care of the 
body, which after all is only the temple 
of the soul." 

By this time I was speaking in a low 
monotonous voice just as though I my- 
self were tired and sleepy. The eyes of 
my patient gradually closed ; she seemed 
to be absolutely at rest and free from ten- 



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sion. I kept on talking to her in a low 
voice, and finally dropped the pansy and 
began to direct more definite suggestion 
to the patient. I told her we were all per- 
fect souls, that souls were sinless, disease- 
less and deathless ; that the soul had the 
power to control the body and to direct 
the life forces ; that from this time on she 
would be well and happy. I kept on talk- 
ing to her for some time, and finally said, 
"Now I am going to let you wake up, 
and when you do you will find that your 
trouble is all gone, and you will realize 
that you are going to* be entirely well 
from this time on." I said, "Now wake 
up. 

She slowly opened her -eyes, still look- 
ing in the direction where she last saw 
the pansy. I said to her, "You are all 
well now." She said, "Yes I am." "And 
you are going to remain so." She said, 



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"Yes." Now I had often before tried to 
get her to have faith that she would be 
well, but she would only say, "I hope 
so." Now she said, "Yes I will be well." 
I saw her six months later and she was 
looking the picture of health. So much 
for the little pansy, or rather for the 
friendly suggestion it helped me to plant 
in the sub-conscious mind of the patient. 
You will find by experiment that you 
can hypnotize a number at a time as eas- 
ily as you can one. The following is a 
very good method for hypnotizing a 
number at one time : 



FORMULA NUMBER FOUR. 

FOR MORE THAN ONE SUBJECT. 

First call for volunteers. If you are 
in a public hall, seat your volunteers in a 
half circle around the stage. Arrange to 
have among them one or two whom you 
have hypnotized before ; place these, one 
on either end of your half circle, and use 
them first. Do nothing with these to 
cause the others to feel in the least un- 
easy. Tell them all you will treat them 
as you would wish to be treated under 
similar circumstances. 

If you have eight or ten subjects 
(volunteers) you will probably be able 
to hypnotize most of them. The fact 
that they have offered themselves as sub- 



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jects may be taken as evidence that they 
desire to be hypnotized and are therefore 
susceptible. From five to -eight subjects 
are enough to make quite an entertain- 
ment, public or private. 

When you call for volunteers do not 
accept many boys as this would weaken 
the confidence of your audience. Call for 
young men and old men, able-bodied 
men and sick men. You may also call 
for ladies ; you will then be able to give 
greater variety to your entertainment. 
Assure your volunteers that if they come 
to you sick you will make them well. 
When you have as many on the stage as 
you want, start in to find out how many 
subjects you have. Tell them to sit up 
straight with their feet set squarely on 
the floor. Walk forward on the stage in 
front of subjects; tell them to look at 
you steadily — not to take their eyes 



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off you. Now say, "Lock your fingers 
together, everybody, firmly, squeeze 
them tight, tighter, tighter" (doing the 
same thing yourself.) "Now put your 
hands at the backs of your heads — tight, 
tighter. Now when I count five you will 
find that you cannot get your hands 
apart; try your best but they will stick 
the closer. One, two, three, four, five, 
now you cannot get your hands apart. 
Try, try harder, harder still." All those 
who fail to get their hands apart have 
been able to "take your suggestion," and 
will therefore most likely prove good 
subjects. Now try some of those who 
failed to take your suggestion. Select 
one and stand him in front of you with 
his back towards you and with his eyes 
closed. Make a few passes from top of 
head down the back; tell him that you 
are going to draw him backward, but as- 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 33 

sure him that you will not let him, fall, 
he need not feel afraid for you will catch 
him. Put your whole power in this effort. 
After making the passes stretch your 
arms out in front of you, almost touch- 
ing the subject, and make the motion of 
drawing him backward toward you, but 
without touching him, and at the same 
time holding a strong "intention" that 
he fall backward. If you succeed in 
drawing him backward he will most like- 
ly prove a good hypnotic subject. 

When you find one over whom you 
seem to have little or no influence seat 
him back by himself and proceed with 
the others. Place these in a row sitting 
on the floor; walk out in front of them 
and indicate some bright object you wish 
them to look at — the electric light will 
do. Tell them to keep their gaze fixed 
upon it steadily ; that their eyes will soon 



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feel so heavy they will want to go to 
sleep. After they have looked at the 
light a few moments tell them to look 
straight at you. If you have music call 
for somthing soft and low. Begin to 
move your body and your extended 
hands gently from side to side and tell 
them they will find themselves swaying 
with the music. Keep this up a little 
while and then tell them they are getting 
so sleepy that they can hardly sit up ; that 
they will soon fall over sound asleep. 
Say, "Drowsy — sleepy — -drowsy — sleepy 
— going to sleep — going to sleep- — 
drowsy— sleepy — sleepy — falling over — 
sleepy — sleepy — sound asleep." When 
they are all asleep tell them that they are 
under your control and will obey your 
commands — will do and say whatever 
you direct. Now you can have them do 
all sorts of comical but innocent things ; 



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eat flour thinking it is ice cream, perform 
acrobatic feats, sing songs and play on 
imaginary instruments. Tell them the 
weather is very warm, and they will wipe 
the perspiration from their faces, in some 
cases the perspiration will be simply 
imaginary, w 7 ith the best subjects it will 
be real. In a word your subjects can be 
made to take on any condition you de- 
sire, simply through your suggestion. 
You will sometimes run across a volun- 
teer who comes on the stage for the sole 
purpose of trying to have a lark at your 
expense. He is not hypnotized, but pre- 
tends to be. You should always be on 
the look-out to detect these frauds. You 
may discover one some time in the act 
of winking at the audience, in which 
case do not be uneasy, you can turn even 
this to good account. Walk up to him 
and very quietly take him by the ear, or 



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the collar (but do not be rough— treat 
him gently.) Lead him to the rear of 
the stage and there seat him on the 
floor. Now return to your other sub- 
jects and tell them that there is a mon- 
key back there — the funniest they have 
ever seen. Point out Smarty and invite 
them to come near and study him close- 
ly; tell them that this monkey walks 
all day on two legs, and sits at a 
table and uses a knife and fork. Advise 
them to examine this curiosity, that you 
think he must be the missing link that 
Darwin speaks of; and make any other 
comical comparisons that suggest them- 
selves to you. By this time Smarty will 
be feeling rather uncomfortable, and will 
probably try to leave the stage. Now 
your fun begins in earnest. Have a 
small rope or a stout cord handy. Give 
this quickly to one of your subjects and 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 37 

tell him to "rope it, to throw a noose 
over its head." "Don't let it get away — 
catch it by the foot. All try to catch it," 
When you have had all the fun you want 
out of Smarty, say to your subjects, 
"Why we have made a mistake, this is 
not a monkey. Don't you see he is 

dressed like a man." This is 

(call his name if you can.) At the same 
time snap your fingers and tell your sub- 
jects to> awaken. Invite Smarty to take 
a chair and witness the performance, 
but do not attempt to hypnotize him 
again, and do not explain anything 
about it to your other subjects. Put 
these to sleep again and go 1 on with your 
performance. Give them some small 
sticks and set them to fishing, or brooms 
for dancing partners. Tell them they 
are in a strawberry patch, and to pick 
and eat as fast as they can. Throw a 



38 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

lot of potatoes on the floor and tell them 
that they are fruit and to gather and eat 
them. Snap them out and you will see 
some comical expressions on their faces. 
Put them to sleep again. After you have 
had all the fun you want and intend to 
close the entertainment, take a sack of 
flour and pour it in a straight line along 
the front of the stage. Tell your sub- 
jects it is a clear, cool stream of water, 
and to wash their dusty, heated faces in 
it; they will do so. Or, you can close by 
telling them it is a warm day and they 
all want to take a bath in that pond. 
Point to some imaginary pond and say, 
"I am going to count three, and whoever 
gets his clothes off first and gets in the 
water is best man." Count three and 
you will see some fun. At the same 
time hold yourself in readiness to 
awaken them at the proper time or they 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 39 

will get all their clothes off. It is always 
well to have the curtain ready to drop 
should you fail to awaken some of them 
in time. 

We have now given methods sufficient 
to hypnotize almost any subject, and if 
you have understood and tried these for- 
mulas you can by this time do whatever 
any other hypnotist can do. New meth- 
ods suited to special cases may be tried 
as they suggest themselves to you. I feel 
the necessity of again impressing upon 
you the importance of removing all un- 
desirable suggestion before waking your 
subject. This is simply done by telling him 
he will forget it. As I have explained, 
when there is harm done it is not due to 
hypnotism but to bad or inharmonious 
suggestion. I will relate an incident il- 
lustrating the effect of bad or inharmoni- 
ous suggestion, which in some conditions 



40 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

of mind is as readily accepted when 
awake as in a state of hypnosis. 

Some time ago, and before I really 
knew anything about hypnotism, or the 
power of suggestion, I went with a friend 
to a near-by saw mill to see about a bill 
of lumber. Sitting on a big mahogany 
log near the mill was a colored man, his 
foot tied up in bandages, so many of 
them that his foot looked as big as a 
grain sack. He was a darkey that we 
both liked and my friend feeling a kindly 
interest in him, and having at one time 
studied medicine and surgery, said, 
"What is the matter with your foot, 
Pompey?" "I cut my toe with an ax 
boss." "Did you cut it badly." "Pretty 
bad sir, it bleeds frightful." My 
friend said, "Let's have a look at it." 
Pompey slowly unwound the bandages, 
one after another until he got down to 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 41 

the toe. We expected to see a bad cut, 
but it proved to be only a small and in- 
significant wound; hardly enough to 
stop a man from his work. We both 
felt like laughing. My friend, who saw 
the comical side of things said, 'That 
certainly is an awful looking cut, Pom- 
pey; why man you will have the lock- 
jaw and die in three days." The third 
day after this the poor darkey developed 
lock-jaw and died. Suggestion killed him. 
With the knowledge I now have of the 
power of suggestion I know that he died 
as the result of accepting my friend's 
suggestion of lock jaw. Had Pompey 
been told that the cut was not a bad one 
and that he would be all right in a day or 
two, I have not doubt he would have 
quickly recovered. 

I think it best here to touch briefly on 
"Suggestion:," but this subject has been 



42 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

thoroughly treated in 'The Power That 
Heals." Any thought formulated in, 
and sent out from the mind is in itself a 
suggestion, and a suggestion once 
thrown out has started on a journey from 
which there is n'o recall; it keeps on 
going until it has made its circuit— until 
it returns to its starting place, until it 
comes home to its sender. 

The weight or force of a suggestion 
depends upon the earnestness of the 
sender and his ability to hold the sug- 
gestion in concentration. 

An idle threat sometimes does harm, 
but a well formulated statement — or 
suggestion — one sent with intention — is 
a thought with a purpose and it does its 
work, be it good or evil. 

In using the word "evil" I mean only 
the absence of good. Just as darkness is 
the absence of light, cold of heat, winter 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 43 

of summer, slowness of speed, negative 
of positive, etc. As a suggestion is trav- 
eling — is making its circuit — it affects 
every human being who is attuned to it. 
Somebody is always receptive to it, and 
those who are receptive to it are those 
who get it; they take it up whether it 
was intended for them or not. And a 
suggestion will not reach a person for 
whom it is intended if that person is not 
attuned to it. 

We may send a suggestion in the form 
of a curse ; that is,, we may hold a strong 
desire topunish or injure someone. Those 
thoughts will go out from us but the per- 
son to whom they are directed may be 
in a positive staite, so that the sugges- 
tions are shut out, and in missing him 
they may strike our best friend who< is 
at the time in a negative state of mind. 

That which we sow we must reap. The 



44 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

thought we send out must come back to 
us, There is no getting away from this 
fact. This is immutable law. 

If we were to start out from this place 
and continue in a straight line we would 
finally get back to the place where we 
started. Nature deals in circles and our 
thoughts as well as other forces and 
forms of nature, conform to this law. 

If we have in the past sent out 
thoughts of inharmony the best we can 
now do is to follow them with thoughts 
of harmony ; by so doing we are able to 
neutralize their effects, so that by the 
time the inharmonious thoughts have 
made their cycle we have deprived them 
of at least some of their harmful power. 
We have disarmed them. If we keep 
this up — if we neutralize all the old 
thoughts of inharmony and confine our- 
selves to sending out only harmonious 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 45 

thoughts in the future, we will soon find 
ourselves in harmony with the ebb and 
flow of the universal current; we will 
come into harmony with all nature — with 
all there is, and we will have found out 
the secret of keeping in perfect health 
and of being perfectly happy. 

Do not say "I can't do this." Do not 
say "I wish I could/' or, "I hope to," but 
say "I can and I will," and then do it. 

We are rewarded according to our ef- 
forts. 

Before leaving this subject I feel the 
necessity of saying something about the 
effects upon the mind of doubt and fear. 
"Doubts and fears are the hell-born off- 
spring of ignorance." Any one who 
keeps his mind forever open to doubts 
and fears is doomed — doomed to alife of 
unhappiness and disease. We must en- 
courage ourselves to be fearless and 



46 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

strong, and we can do this through a 
proper use of suggestion. Should some- 
thing arise to make you anxious or fear- 
ful, you need simply to say, "I do not 
fear these things, they can not harm me. 
I am perfectly calm and my nerves are 
steady and quiet ; I am in a condition to 
act wisely in this matter. I will not an- 
ticipate trouble; should it arise I know 
that I am at all times able to take care of 
myself. I am one with the universal law ; 
it created me and it can sustain me. I 
am sinless, diseaseless and deathless. By 
virtue of my desires I am a magnet, but 
a magnet to attract good only." Do not 
be afraid to repeat — the oftener you go 
over a suggestion the deeper the im- 
pression it will make. 

The following incident occurred with- 
in my own circle of friends : 

A certain gentleman who had been a 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 47 

practicing physician, but who owing to 
ill health had been obliged to give up his 
practice, was one day suffering from a 
violent headache. His daughter, who 
was a student of mental science, and had 
been cured of an obstinate disease by 
the mental method, said to him. "Papa 
you don't have to suffer this way, just 
deny away the pain. You can cure your- 
self, try it." He had no faith at all in 
his ability to deny away the headache, 
but more to make the whole thing ridic- 
ulous than any thing else, he said, "I 
haven't any headache — my head doesn't 
ache. (He looked over at me with a 
knowing wink and went on.) "No sir, I 
haven't any headache, not a bit of it. I 
never did have a headache, (with another 
wink at me.) He kept this up so long 
that it began to annoy me, for I was 
trying to read. Over and over again he 



48 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

said, "My head doesn't ache/' He was 
lying on a lounge, I was sitting in a chair 
near him. Suddenly he reached over 
and laid his hand on my knee and with a 
surprised expression on his face said, 
"Charley, by G — my head doesn't 
ache." I laughed, thinking he only 
wanted to attract my attention, but it 
was true that his headache was gone; 
nor did it return again. Now this served 
to impress upon me a very important les- 
son, the absolute reliability of which has 
been verified since. It proves that sug- 
gestion has the power to> heal even when 
we have little or no faith in it. But it is 
necessary to persist in the suggestion if 
we would meet with full success. Inhar- 
monious suggestion has equal power. It 
was that, and that only, that killed the 
darkey who hurt his toe. And while I 
am speaking of fear I will relate an old 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 49 

Eastern legend which runs thus: Once 
upon a time a pilgrim chanced to meet 
the plague as he traveled a lonely road. 
Said the pilgrim to the plague, "Where 
are you going ?" Said the plague, "I am 
going down to< Bagdad to kill five 
thousand people." Some weeks later as 
the pilgrim was returning he again met 
the plague. Said the pilgrim. "You 
told me you were going down to 
Bagdad to kill five thousand people, in- 
stead you killed fifty thousand." "No," 
said the plague. "I killed five thousand, 
the other forty-five thousand died of 
fright." 



FORMULA NUMBER FIVE. 

TO PRODUCE CATALEPSY. 

Should you desire to produce the cata- 
leptic state you can do so by simply sug- 
gesting to your subject that he is becom- 
ing rigid. Say to him also that he will ex- 
perience no unpleasantness consequent 
upon going into this state ; that his heart 
action will be easy and natural; that he 
will breathe quietly and freely, but that 
he will become as rigid as iron from his 
shoulders to* his feet. Having told him 
this make some quick passes down his 
back, from his neck all the way down his 
spinal column. Make strong vigorous 
strokes, at the same time saying, "Rigid, 
rigid, rigid, rigid as a board, rigid as a 
board. Nothing can bend you, you are 
rigid as a board. Stiff, stiff, stiff." If 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 51 

you have a good subject he will now be 
as tense as a bar of iron. You can place 
him, head and shoulders on one chair and 
feet on another. Six, eight, or ten peo- 
ple can now pile upon him but he will not 
bend under the weight. Before putting 
weight upon him, and after you have him 
in position, it would be well to repeat 
with a brisk stroke down his body, 
"rigid, rigid, rigid as a bar of iron." 
Now put on your weight. Should you de- 
sire, a large rock can be placed upon his 
chest, and with an eight or ten pound 
sledge you can shatter the rock at one 
blow. Do not be afraid — strike it as if 
you intend to smash it ; you can do 
so without hurting him. Should the rock 
be rough place a folded table-cover, or 
anything similar that may be handy, un- 
der it to prevent scratching the skin. 
Use no other padding. 



FORMULA NUMBER SIX. 

TO DEADEN THE NERVES. 

Hypnotists sometimes stick hat pins 
through the ears, nose or cheeks of a 
subject. This is done to prove to the 
audience that the subject is under 
control. But as this is pretty sure 
to shock the sensibilities of some at 
least in the audience, the operator 
should use judgment in making this ex- 
hibit. To make this demonstration simp- 
ly suggest to your subject that he will 
feel no pain. Rub the spot with your 
finger where you intend to stick the pin, 
at the same time assure him that it will 
next hurt him, that there is no feeling in 
that spot. Repeat the suggestion three 
or four times and then proceed with 
your demonstration. 



FORMULA NUMBER SEVEN. 

TO CAUSE PROTRACTED SLEEP. 

Should you desire to put your subject 
to sleep for twenty-four hours or longer, 
hypnotize him and put him down in the 
rigid condition, then say to him, "Now 
the rigid condition is passing from you; 
you are resting quietly ; there is no ten- 
tion about you anywhere; you are per- 
fectly comfortable and will remain so." 
Repeat this statement several times. 
Now say, "You are going to sleep for 
twenty-four hours; nothing will disturb 
you; you will simply rest and sleep for 
twenty-four hours." Should you intend to 
remove him at any time during the sleep 
tell him so before putting him to sleep ; 
tell him that he will be carried to a cer- 
tain place and left there; if you 
intend to bring him back to the 



54 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

same place, tell him that also. In fact 
explain to him just what you are going 
to do with him. Assure him that no< harm 
will come to him and that he will quietly 
and comfortably sleep; that he will not 
be conscious of the people that may 
come to look at him, and that he will not 
waken until a certain hour unless you 
awaken him yourself. Tell him that you 
can awaken him at any time but that no 
one else can do so ; that, however, if you 
do not awaken him he will awaken him- 
self at a certain hour. In this way you 
secure him against accident to yourself. 
It would be well to set the time for his 
waking later than you intend to awaken 
him; then if for any reason your audi- 
ence is late he will not wake up before you 
want him to. There is not a particle of 
danger to your subject in putting him in- 
to a protracted sleep. And why should 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 55 

there be? Subjects are some times put 
to sleep for a week. Many animals sleep 
the whole winter through and come out 
O. K. in the spring. What can be done 
through this power is practically limitless. 

Hypnotism embodies a power that 
is extremely valuable to us all. Any mis- 
use of it, or any breach of faith with a 
subject is most contemptible and dishon- 
orable, and is w r ell calculated to bring 
upon the perpetrator the misfortune he 
deserves . 

I have told you only a few of the 
things that can be done with it, but I cau- 
tion you again to be careful of the power 
in your hands — see that you do not 
abuse it. "For he that deceives one of 
these little ones that believe in me, it 
were better for him that a mill-stone 
were hanged about his neck and he were 
cast into the sea." 



FORMULA NUMBER EIGHT. 

TO PRODUCE CLAIRVOYANCE. 

Now a word about clairvoyance 
and I am through. I have made to some 
extent a study of this soul-seeing force. 
Let him who makes light of it do like- 
wise and he will cease to doubt that 
clairvoyance is a verity — is a fact. This 
sense can be liberated, or in other words, 
the state can be induced through hyp- 
notic suggestion. As to its reliability at 
all times, each must be his own judge. 
We do know that material things — 
things pertaining to this life have been 
accurately described by persons in a 
clairvoyant state, who could not possibly 
have known any thing previously about 
what they described. Space is annihilat- 
ed to the clairvoyant. He can see things 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 57 

transpiring at a distance — at any dis- 
tance — without the loss of a moment in 
going there. In receiving reports of other 
planets and messages from departed spir- 
its we have to take them on trust — these 
are things that cannot be verified. How- 
ever, the investigator will find clairvoy- 
ance an extremely interesting study. 

"Most of the investigators of this sub- 
ject (hypnotism) agree that there are six 
different and distinct degrees or stages of 
the hypnotic sleep, while not one in a 
thousand of our best hypnotists know 
how to produce them. Note the direc- 
tions carefully: When you have pro- 
duced the first degree of sleep, you can 
by careful and persistent effort produce 
all of the stages. Sleep is the first stage. 
When your subject has reached that con- 
dition — is asleep — tell him to stop there 
a few minutes. At the expiration of two 



58 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

or three minutes tell him firmly to go on 
deeper, and if he takes the suggestion he 
will take one or more deep inspirations 
and become quiet again, or breathe 
naturally. This is the second stage. 
Have him stop at this place again. Con- 
tinue to- do* this, watching his pulse care- 
fully, and the condition of his hands. If 
his hands assume a rigid condition and 
his body straightens out, he has reached 
the third degree. In this degree of sleep 
your subject has no power to* move — it 
is the cataleptic degree. Before you 
drive your subject deeper ask him if the 
light hurts his eyes, and if so, lay a hand- 
kerchief over his eyes, and if at night 
turn down the light. Now instruct him 
to go' deeper, and if he go<es deeper there 
will be a relaxation of the muscles, and 
your subject will indicate by the char- 
acter of his remarks that he is in a light 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 59 

stage of clairvoyance; this is the fourth 
degree, or mind-reading stage. Do not 
permit your subject to remain long in 
this stage the first time he reaches it, be- 
cause anyone can awaken your subject 
out of the fourth stage the first time he 
has reached it. By the same means force 
him deeper into the next stage, which is 
the fifth, or independent clairvoyant de- 
gree. If your subject is clear you can 
send him anywhere to visit friends; he 
can read their minds and describe places, 
and if he is in the right condition his an- 
swers to your questions will begin to 
open up to your intelligence new ideas 
of life. There is one deeper stage than 
this, and you must be very careful in pro- 
ducing it; it is the sixth stage, or the 
deep trance degree and when once fully 
developed shows the unlimited power of 
the human mind. Before passing your 



60 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

subject from the fifth to the sixth stage 
secure an agreement with him that he 
will awaken, or come back through the 
stages at any time you may suggest, 
otherwise he may refuse to wake up and 
perhaps cause you anxiety for some time. 
Most persons dislike very much to be in- 
terrupted or disturbed when in this con- 
dition. However, if your subject will 
agree to awaken, you may tell him to go 
from the fifth to the sixth degree and 
stop there. Do not ask your subject 
when in the sixth stage to make trips for 
you, because the mind can not travel 
when in this deep trance stage, but every 
thing you suggest to- him is present to 
him. This seems to be a state of perfect 
knowing, and is distinguished from 
the fifth stage by this one feature. In 
the fifth stage the subject has to travel 
from one place to another in order to 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 61 

answer your questions regarding those 
places. In the sixth stage he seems to 
know or see perfectly without traveling. 
One expression common to every one in 
this condition is "everywhere is here," 
thus demonstrating the omnipresence of 
mind. A subject full in the sixth stage 
is able to answer any question, no mat- 
ter how deep or profound it may be — 
regardless of whether his former educa- 
tion has had any thing to do with the 
subject or not. He can see any person 
you suggest, whether present or absent, 
whether the person is living today or 
lived a thousand years ago. In bringing 
your subject back from the sixth, or any 
other stage, tell him to come back 
through the stages and wake up. It is 
usually better to tell him to stop a min- 
ute in each stage, and tell him that he 
will be all right when he awakens. The 



62 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

best and safest plan is to put your sub- 
ject to sleep for a stated time, say thirty 
or forty minutes, then all danger of his 
not waking will be averted. It is this 
part of hypnotism that enables us to 
make a careful and comprehensive 
study of the human mind. When 
you have seen a hypnotic subject carried 
through all the stages of the hypnotic 
trance you will then be fully convinced 
that unlimited forces lie within, awaiting 
expression, asking recognition, strug- 
ling toward the surface and trying to 
make themselves manifest." 

I have made a somewhat lengthy quo- 
tation from Prof. Weltmer, but he has 
presented the subject so simply ' and 
clearly that it could not be improved 
upon. 

I will here describe a few tests of clair- 
voyant power which were obtained un- 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 63 

der such circumstances as to render them 
in my estimation perfectly reliable and 
trustworthy. 

Some years ago when I was teaching 
a large class in my native town, there was 
among my students a man who had been 
an invalid of long standing; he had been 
several times at the point of death dur- 
ing this period of ill health, and had 
once been pronounced dead by his phy- 
sician, so low had his life-forces ebbed. 
Under my treatment and teaching he 
rallied and in a few months became a 
well man. Owing to the great benefit 
to his health, which he derived from this 
school of metaphysics, he became an ar- 
dent student and with the result that he 
soon found himself an able teacher and 
developer of clairvoyance. 

His daughter, then fifteen years old, 
under his patient and careful tuition 



64 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

developed rapidly into one of the most 
reliable clairvoyants I have ever known. 
On one occasion, soon after develop- 
ing her powers, her father said to her, 
half jokingly, "Unless, Girlie, you can 
save me the trip, I will have to go down 
and see how my men are getting along 
with their well. Perhaps you can go 
clairvoyantly. How about it?" "I will 
go," she answered, "I can do so more 
easily than you." Having gone into the 
clairvoyant state she said, "Well, papa, I 
am here," (meaning at the spot where 
they were putting down an artesian 
well.) "What are they doing," her 
father asked. "They are drilling away." 
"How deep are they?" "I don't know, 
there is no pipe lying around." "Well 
just go down the pipe and tell me 
about it." "Why, papa, I can go right 
down the pipe and see just as plain as 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 65 

day. They have broken the bit off the 
drill-rod. The men think they are mak- 
ing progress but they are only pounding 
away on the broken bit, and are batter- 
ing up the rod/' "Where is the bit 
broken?" inquired her father. "Broken 
in two, and the broken off piece is split." 
"See if you can look through the rock 
and tell me how far they will have to go 
before striking a flow of water." "Just a 
few inches more and they will strike into 
a big stream," was her answer. And she 
added, "I can go all about among these 
rocks and they are different from any- 
thing I have seen before." "Describe 
them," said her father. "There are little 
black pebbles all through them and the 
seams are full of water. You will get a 
big flow here." 

The men had driven a one-and-a-half 
inch iron pipe ninety feet to rock. In- 



66 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

side of the pipe was a half-inch drill-rod 
of the same material, and on the end of 
this rod was a bit for boring rock, and it 
was this bit that had met with an acci- 
dent. 

The gentleman having reason to feel 
the utmost confidence in his daughter, 
mounted his wheel and went down to 
the scene of interest. He found the men 
drilling and inquired how they were get- 
ting along. "All right," was the re- 
sponse. "No you are not, your bit is 
broken," he said with a confidence of 
manner that astonished his men. "How 
do- you know," one of them en- 
quired. "Never mind ; pull up your rod." 
They reluctantly proceeded to obey 
orders ; it was a troublesome thing to do 
and the men had no reason to think there 
was anything wrong with the bit. But all 
proved to be just as the young girl had 

LofC. 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 67 

seen it clairvoyantly. The rod was pull- 
ed up, the broken bit fished out, a new 
one adjusted, and after drilling eight 
inches further they struck a big flow of 
water. This incident can be vouched for 
and sworn to if, necessary. 

Some few days subsequent to this oc- 
currence I called upon the gentleman, 
and having listened to the narration of 
the above I expressed a desire to be pres- 
ent sometime when his young daughter 
went into the clairvoyant state. She was 
called in and being perfectly willing to 
oblige us she then and there gave us 
some very fine tests. She had at this 
time never been out of her native state, 
but was able to describe with perfect ac~ 
curacy, both people and their homes, fif- 
teen hundred miles away. She even de- 
scribed the wall paper in the different 
rooms, and furniture, pictures and brie- 



68 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

a-brac ; the way the people were dressed, 
and what they were doing, and even the 
conversation going on at the time. The 
absolute truth of her statements was 
afterwards verified. 

This young girl was at one time re- 
quested to go down into- the earth, enter- 
ing at the spot where her father intend- 
ed putting down a well, and to tell him 
what intervened between the surface and 
the point where he would strike water. 
She did as requested, carefully describ- 
ing the character of soil and rock as she 
came to it. Then she was asked to> go 
deeper into the earth. Presently she an- 
nounced that she had descended a mile. 
"Go on down," said her father, "perhaps 
you will find something interesting far- 
ther on." She proceeded but became 
frightened and said she was coming 
back. "No, go deeper," insisted her 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 69 

father, "nothing will harm you." Present- 
ly she announced that it was becoming 
hot and smelled like gas. "Nothing can 
hurt you, go deeper/' he urged, "go fast- 
er, go clear through." She described cav- 
erns and abysses, smoky vapors and 
gases. Finally she exclaimed, "It is day- 
light, I am in the sunshine." (With us it 
was night.) We enquired what she saw 
near her. "A pond of water," was the 
answer. "Perhaps you are in China," 
suggested her father. "Look about you 
and see if you can discover men wearing 
queues." "No," came the answer, "but I 
see men with black hair cut off square 
at the neck and worn rather long." 
Neither the young girl's father nor I 
knew at what point on the globe she had 
emerged into the sunshine, until on in- 
vestigation the following day we found 
the country directly under us to be Thib- 



70 SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 

et, and its people and customs coincided 
perfectly with her further description of 
them. She afterwards visited China and 
gave us a long and interesting account 
of what she saw there. She also visited 
Mars and other planets, but as there was 
no way of verifying her statements con- 
cerning these places, they could serve 
no purpose beyond that of furnishing us 
a very novel kind of entertainment. 

It has come within the scope of my 
chosen work to develop many people for 
clairvoyant work, and I have found that 
the quality, the degree of power, and the 
reliability of this newly developed sense 
depends solely upon the character of the 
individual. 

Honorable, refined and intelligent 
people will always make the best clair- 
voyants. 

There is enough, and more in this lit- 



SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 71 

tie volume to make any student thor- 
oughly proficient in the arts it treats of. 
It requires practice to- attain confidence, 
but confidence will come with success. 



The End. 



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